We’d hate to bother you at work, and presume that showing up at your home wouldn’t be appreciated. We don’t flatter ourselves to know where your Third Place might be. So why don’t you meet us here, in the Fourth Place. We’ll save you a seat.

During the first 300 years or so of its life it saw millions of guests and onlookers, patrons of dramas, reenactments, battles, and executions. The evidence of this only lends to the Coliseum’s antiquity, the scars of a rich and ancient past.

The sea swells with deep, moaning sighs ascending into crashes of waves that remain the constant backdrop, heard more clearly when the winds die down and most acutely when you find yourself standing at the edge of the cliffs; where one can feel as small as they really are or as big as they believe themselves to be.